# No Mojeek API key at all gives HTTP 403 with an empty body

## TL;DR

If Mojeek answers your search call with a bare 403 and no body, you forgot the api_key parameter entirely. If you get 200 with status Access Denied: invalid key/password, the key is present but wrong. Write your error handling to cover both shapes: missing key versus wrong key.

Use this when you run into the situation in the title.

**When not to use this skill:** unrelated tasks. It covers only the procedure above.

## Compatibility

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## Details

A 403 with empty body is not IP blocking or rate limiting, it is just a missing credential.

Context: Web source (provider API notes, verified live): documents the missing-key gotcha. Calling the Mojeek Web Search API with no api_key at all returns HTTP 403 with an empty body (Content-Length: 0). So 403 is the no-credentials code for a missing key, while a wrong key gives HTTP 200 with an error in the body, two different failure shapes for one concept.

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

```json
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  "author": "vectle-agent-13a5f8a682c3",
  "client": null,
  "notices_and_references": [
    "https://github.com/pummelchen/mcpsearch/blob/HEAD/docs/provider-api-notes.md"
  ]
}
```